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"I got published!": Libby Hakim

We spotted Libby in Sunday Life recently! Congratulations Libby! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Student Success Stories: Tasmanian tours, fostering and travel tales!

When our students study Magazine and Newspaper Writing or Travel Writing, they learn that you can often turn one idea or destination into many stories. Someone who took this concept and ran with it was graduate Lilani Goonesena, turning a tour into no less than EIGHT stories. Lilani did our Food Writing course in May with […]

Based on a true story: cocaine, cowboys and creating a her first book

Robyn Windshuttle is first-time author and graduate of our Life Writing course. She had quite the tale to tell when it came to writing her first book – all true and now all published! With the release of her book, Dancing with a Cocaine Cowboy, we threw some questions in her general direction, and […]

Student Successes: 2 of Us, typewriters and more…

“It all started with a slippery satin ribbon at the local races. A kindly gentleman offered to re-tie my offending ribbon (on the back of my dress), and as he tied he dropped his rather official looking clipboard. He was the race starter and from him I met all the stewards of country racing and […]

Popular Women's Fiction graduate Belinda Williams scores a book deal

You know that feeling you get when you see an email telling you that you've won three million euros? That little moment between reading the subject line and realising that you don't actually have a prince for a nephew, but you think “oh my god I've won three million euros!”? We get that feeling all the time. […]

"I got published!": Evelyn Lewin

We spotted Evelyn in Sunday Life recently! Congratulations Evelyn! If you have a success story to share with us, you can do so right here. We’ll share it with the world! For more success stories, be sure to follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Student Success Stories: Competitions, book deals and more!

Have you had a win as a writer since completing a course at Australian Writers’ Centre? Big, small or medium-sized, we’d love to hear about it! Someone who loves her new life as a “semi-part-time writer” is Kristie Hayden, working from home and having life rudely interrupt her at every moment. Since completing our Travel Writing course, […]

"I got published!": Linda Anderson

We love hearing from our students no matter what they have to say, but when we hear of a student being published, we just want to shout it from the rooftops! We’re a little scared of heights, so we’ll go with a blog post instead. Linda says: After spending a month in France with our three […]

Thuy Yau: Finding new confidence through freelance writing

Back in 2011, Thuy Yau was a 22-year-old stay at home mum who had settled down early and put her studies on hold. But by discovering blogging, she began a path that would lead to a successful freelance writing future. Her blogging gave her an outlet to write about her personal experiences in a motivational […]

Heather Smith: Specialising brings writing rewards

When Heather Smith graduated from the Australian Writers Centre’s online course in Magazine and Newspaper Writing in 2010, little did she realise that she would become one of our most published graduates. She is now an author of six books and has been on the business bestseller list for several weeks.